Skills crisis sets chins wagging (sorry)

I purposely wanted to wait at least 24 hours before writing anything about Chinwag’s interesting panel discussion on the skills shortage in the digital sector so I could let everything that happened settle in.  According to the survey that Chinwag themselves carried out, a large majority of companies in digital are worried that the lack [...]

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LinkedIn takes next step towards business social networking dominance?

As reported by Techcrunch UK, business networking goliath LinkedIn has made the jump from the US and opened their first foreign office here in London, where they plan to continue their massive growth and I assume subsequently crush/assimilate Euro-rival Xing.  LinkedIn is working hard to increase site usefulness and functionality, as evidenced by the rising popularity of their answers [...]

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Wiimote = Window to Future

Posted on Penny Arcade this week, this video blew my face off. The idea of ducking and weaving IRL actually changing the perspective with which users can view the screen and therefore interact with the game is exciting – imagine rolling under a car and leaning out to fire at thugs [...]

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Viral Bats

I’m really impressed with the online marketing campaign for the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight.  The company responsible is 42 Entertainment, a funky agency that produces original content combined with viral marketing in the form of what they call AGRs, or Alternate Reality Games.  Alternate Reality Games are interactive and (usually) internet based, where users affect storyline [...]

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